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Long before Marc Ribot<\/strong> made a name for himself as a pioneering force in NYC’s downtown music scene, and as guitarist for luminaries like Tom Waits, Wilson Pickett and The Lounge Lizards, he began his guitar studies as a teenager with close family friend, the Father of Haitian classical guitar, Frantz Cass\u00e9us<\/strong>. In 1946, Frantz<\/strong> came to NYC from his native Port-au-Prince, Haiti with the ambition to compose a distinctly Haitian classical guitar music, to fuse the European classical tradition with Haitian folk elements as Heitor Villa-Lobos had done with his native Brazil\u2019s and as B\u00e9la Bart\u00f3k had done with Hungarian folk songs. His three recordings, Haitian Folks Songs (1953), Haitian Dances (1954) and Haitiana (1969) were released on Folkway Recordings (and since reissued by Smithsonian Folkways) and his compositions have been covered by artists worldwide including the song \u201cMerci bon dieu\u201d by Harry Belafonte.<\/p>\n

In effort to preserve Frantz<\/strong>\u2019s musical legacy, Marc<\/strong> edited a collection of Casseus<\/strong>‘ solo guitar compositions, and performed those same pieces on his 1993 album “Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus”. This remastered and expanded edition, with three additional bonus tracks recorded in 2020, marks the first time Marc’s interpretations of this work is available on vinyl.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Long before Marc Ribot<\/strong> made a name for himself as a pioneering force in NYC’s downtown music scene, and as guitarist for luminaries like Tom Waits, Wilson Pickett and The Lounge Lizards, he began his guitar studies as a teenager with close family friend, the Father of Haitian classical guitar, Frantz Cass\u00e9us<\/strong>. In 1946, Frantz<\/strong> came to NYC from his native Port-au-Prince, Haiti with the ambition to compose a distinctly Haitian classical guitar music, to fuse the European classical tradition with Haitian folk elements as Heitor Villa-Lobos had done with his native Brazil\u2019s and as B\u00e9la Bart\u00f3k had done with Hungarian folk songs. His three recordings, Haitian Folks Songs (1953), Haitian Dances (1954) and Haitiana (1969) were released on Folkway Recordings (and since reissued by Smithsonian Folkways) and his compositions have been covered by artists worldwide including the song \u201cMerci bon dieu\u201d by Harry Belafonte.<\/p>\n

In effort to preserve Frantz<\/strong>\u2019s musical legacy, Marc<\/strong> edited a collection of Casseus<\/strong>‘ solo guitar compositions, and performed those same pieces on his 1993 album “Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus”. This remastered and expanded edition, with three additional bonus tracks recorded in 2020, marks the first time Marc’s interpretations of this work is available on vinyl.<\/span><\/p>\n

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